What I Did in Florence…
Current Student Advisors
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Joe Oehmke - Florence, Winter 2008-09 & Oxford, Spring 2008-09 | |
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MAJOR: History |
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| Academic Interests: Democracy, American and Japanese History, Creative Writing | ||
I first went to Florence during spring break of my senior year in high school. It was only one stop on a ten-day tour of Italy, but the two days I spent in Firenze were more than enough to get me hooked. It was during that break that I decided to enroll at Stanford, and soon after returning to the States I was thrilled to discover that Stanford had a campus in Florence. Thus, the choice to study abroad there was an easy one for me; I had been planning it since before freshman year! But I still could never have anticipated just how much my overseas experience in Florence would mean to me.Read full profile » |
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Ana Maria Sanchez - Florence, Autumn & Winter 2008-09 | |
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MAJOR: International Relations |
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| Academic Interests: International Development | ||
Before spending my 6 wonderful months in Florence, my biggest dream and goal - for as long as I can remember - was to have the opportunity to experience Italy and its culture firsthand. Year after year I dreamt of going to the 1-month long trip prepared by the Italian school I attended in Colombia for 10th grade. Unfortunately, I just missed the trip, as my family and I decided to move to America two years before it was going to finally be my turn to go with my school friends to what older generations called, “the trip of a lifetime.” At that moment, I thought I would never be able to have such an experience, but it was this thought itself that pushed me ahead to find my way to have my own “trip of a lifetime.” It was thanks to the Stanford abroad program that my dreams and goals were more than fulfilled, they were completely and unexpectedly surpassed, and that I did get my life-changing trip, and the best 6 months of my life. Read full profile » |
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Past Student Advisors
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Kaitlin Asrow — Florence, Winter and Spring 2007-08 | |
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MAJOR: International Relations |
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| Academic Interests: Human Rights/Public Policy | ||
| Italy was also the perfect combination of my interest in international affairs with my love of art history. I felt that the Florence program offered me all the academic opportunities that I wanted and was the ideal location to see Europe from. I expected to take Stanford classes and to travel with my friends, but I never expected to gain a new family in the people I met and lived with, and to leave the country with such a deep respect and understanding for the culture.Read full profile » | ||
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Amanda Romero — Florence, Spring 2007-08 | |
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MAJOR: Anthropological Sciences |
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| Academic Interests: Medical anthropology, Italian, Public health | ||
| Along with getting to know the life of a Florentine, we took a road trip through the Tuscan hillsides, swam in the Blue Grotto, hiked Cinqueterre, went to Venice for Carnivale and so much more. But no matter where we went, there were always Italians ready to tell us why their city was the most beautiful and most historical in all of Italia and tell us how best to explore their world. Read full profile » | ||
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Leigh Biddlecome —Overseas Seminar, The Pursuit of Peace: From the Enlightenment to the United Nations, Geneva, Autumn 2006. Oxford, Autumn and Spring 2006-07. Florence, Winter 2006-07 | |
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MAJOR: English |
MAJOR ADVISOR : Christopher Rovee |
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| Academic Interests: British modernism and the relation of visual art and literary culture | ||
| I knew from the time I applied to Stanford that I would spend my junior year abroad, although I never could have guessed the extent to which this time away would eventually shape my undergraduate experience. Read full profile » | ||
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Mallory Bounds —Florence, Winter and Spring 2006-07 | |
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MAJOR: International Relations |
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| Academic Interests: organized religion; public opinion and statistics | ||
| Florence is fairly small and it is easy to get around; my host house was a perfect point of departure for exploring the city. I stopped spending my free afternoons on the Facebook. Instead I went jogging in the Tuscan foothills or attended mass at Santa Croce. Read full profile » | ||
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Owen Frivold —Florence, Autumn & Winter 2006-07 | |
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| MAJORS: Communication, Italian | MAJOR ADVISOR: Jeremy Bailenson, Caroline Springer | |
| Like most undergrads I arrived at Stanford having some pre-defined plan about how I was going to spend my time here on the Farm. I started my Junior year thinking, as I had from the start, that I would only stay one quarter in Florence, come back, take a full-load of courses, and graduate a year early. After two weeks in Italy, I realized that I needed to reconsider my big plans.Read full profile » | ||